"A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. Thatâ€™s what I like about coincidence."

-- Vladimir Nabokov

#Friday Quotes #Men Quotes #Blue Quotes

“Every great inspiration is but an experiment.”
“I'm not a big fan of remakes. And even if they are good, they're still not as good as the original, so what's the point?”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual.”
“I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.”

Source : Zenith Brown, Leslie Ford (2018). “Ill Met by Moonlight”, p.109, Wildside Press LLC
“I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.”

Source : "The Pilgrimage Of Jesse Jackson". "Frontline", www.pbs.org.
“Covers, so many covers, so many different, delectable pictures, and although, metaphorically speaking, it is the thing I hate most, when it comes to literature I always judge books by their covers. First the cover will catch my eye, then I read the back of the book, and then finally the first page.”

Source : Jane Green (2000). “Jemima J: A Novel”, p.67, Broadway Books
“The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.”
“There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.”

Source : Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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